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22 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

How to Build a Better Board

As more and more corporate executives have been paraded on perp walks these last few years, a question has repeatedly been raised: Where was the board? After all, isn't it the board's responsibility to make sure the fox isn't hired to run... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

18 Mar 2020
News

Leading Change

1000 companies on digital strategy and transformation and has conducted research on a variety of organizations, including Microsoft, Facebook, IBM, Amazon, Alibaba, and Google. Lakhani is the founder and co-director of the Laboratory for... View Details

01 Dec 2014
News

Case Study: Growing the Family Business

discounted services or brand association might benefit the local lender. Finally, given the business strategy of no long-term commitments, I wonder if the centers could be sold to or subsidized by local large employers that would want the... View Details

Keywords: childcare; Finance

20 Dec 2016
First Look

December 20, 2016

accounting for more than three quarters of U.S. corporate patents. The rise of import competition from China has represented a major competitive shock to the sector, which in theory could benefit or stifle innovation. In this paper we... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

19 Apr 2011
First Look

First Look: April 19

the answers in ways that are right for you. By asking these questions, you can craft new strategies for staying on top of your game. Publisher's Link:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009

In addition, we provide details on the leading sources of energy in China as well as information on the rise of alternative energy. Purchase this note: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309057 Corporate Solutions... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2013
News

2nd HBS Survey on US Competitiveness

William Lawrence University Professor Michael Porter. In assessing an immediate path forward, both liberal and conservative business leaders urged compromise to secure a sustainable federal budget, corporate tax reform, and the easing of... View Details

18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

Tech Investment the Wise Way

Excerpted with permission from "The Dual Edged Role of the Business Model in Leveraging Corporate Technology Investments," in Taking Technical Risks: How Innovators, Executives, and Investors Manage High Tech Risks, article ©... View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough & Richard S. Rosenbloom

Web

FAQ - U.S. Competitiveness

identified unconventional energy as one of the eight strategic priorities that would be transformative for America. The Project’s research on unconventional energy recommends a strategy for government and business to maximize this... View Details

31 Oct 2017
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New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017

nineteenth century, showed it gained momentum from the 1960s, and resulted in a mainstreaming of sustainability rhetoric, and sometimes practice, in large corporations from the 1980s, primarily in Western developed countries. A more... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

16 Aug 2016
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August 16, 2016

forthcoming PublicAffairs Why They Do It: Inside the Mind of the White-Collar Criminal By: Soltes, Eugene F. Abstract—From the financial fraudsters of Enron, to the embezzlers at Tyco, to the Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff, the failings of View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Jun 2023
Blog Post

The HBS Climate Rising Podcast Reaches 50 (Episodes)

themed series in 2022 covered several angles of corporate decarbonization—from HP’s climate plan to startup BlocPower’s strategy to electrify and decarbonize buildings, Aspen Institute’s collaborative... View Details

October 2024
Case

GLIN Impact Capital

By: Ethan Rouen and Akiko Saito

In 2024, the co-founders of the venture capital fund GLIN Impact Capital face a critical inflection point as they consider launching a second, significantly larger impact investment fund in Japan. Founded in 2021 by the three Harvard Business School alumni, GLIN is one... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Investment Funds; Growth and Development Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Power and Influence; Japan

August 1988 (Revised February 1992)
Case

Norton Group PLC: To Be or Not to Be in the Motorcycle Business (A)

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Jon Skofic

Norton, a once famous motorcycle manufacturer, soundly beaten by Japanese competition, turns its attention to developing rotary engines. The company is acquired by Norton Group PLC, which is headed by a dashing entrepreneur. The new management must decide what... View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Decision Choices and Conditions; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Human Resources; Crisis Management; Resource Allocation; Production; Competition; Auto Industry; Motorcycle Industry; Japan; United Kingdom

July 2011 (Revised January 2013)
Case

Digital Microscopy Is Making Me Crazy!

For Carl Zeiss Microimaging, modular hardware and software enabled customers to tailor Zeiss's broad range of microscopy systems hardware and software to meet a wide range of needs from basic scientific research in the biological and medical sciences to clinical... View Details

Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Corporate Strategy; Disruptive Innovation; Science-Based Business; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Business Conglomerates; Digital Platforms; Opportunities; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Computer Industry

08 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries

into their negotiating approach. It's a lesson many companies have learned the hard way. And influence on negotiations need not be driven by an informal, underlying power structure, as U.S. Stone Container Corporation learned. While... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius

01 Jun 2015
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015

High-Profit Strategies in the Age of Techno Service by John A. Goodman (MBA 1971) (AMACOM) These days businesses have more opportunities to enhance the customer experience than ever before. Goodman explains how businesses can design and... View Details

February 2001 (Revised August 2001)
Case

Dialpad Communications (A)

By: Alan D. MacCormack and Kerry Herman

Describes the evolution of Dialpad, a voice-over-Internet-protocol telephony company. Set in September 2000, CEO Brad Garlinghouse faces a dilemma: what to do about the large number of international users who use Dialpad to call the United States for free. He must also... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business or Company Management; Organizational Design; Competitive Strategy; Investment; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Internet and the Web; Venture Capital; Telecommunications Industry; California

19 Jul 2016
First Look

July 19, 2016

chains have engaged in private political strategies prompting transnational corporations (TNCs) to adopt codes of conduct and monitor their suppliers for compliance, but it is not clear whether... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Apr 2005
Research & Ideas

New Learning at American Home Products

division integrating product development and marketing, but without significant research capability. For all but chemicals and prescription drugs, the corporate focus was on marketing, especially advertising.24 In prescription drugs, the... View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Chemical; Health; Manufacturing; Pharmaceutical

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